Coming covers.

Upcoming releases

We’ve got covers for some of the upcoming releases!

The cover for the kid-targeted strip collection Charlie Brown: All Tied Up really helps straighten up the confusion between being tied down and being tied up. This is clearly up.

Christmas is Here! is a children’s storybook that’s intended to help you find the location of Christmas on a map, I reckon. (It’s somewhere near Easter Island. Christmas being short for Christ-landmass. It’s just short of the New Year’s Date Line. This is why they don’t let me teach school, people!) Anyway, it looks like Snoopy is taking Woodstock for a walk in a wok.

Peanuts: The Poster Book (or, as Amazon’s listing is calling it, The Peanuts Poster Book) is  a poster book containing posters, in book form. (Actually, according to the cover, it’s not even posters, it’s “prints”.) It would be nice to know what size these things are. These are meant to be “suitable for framing,” so probably not too large.

Upcoming releases
Destined to blow up

Puffer Jacket Snoopy is a thing… enough of a thing that I’ll be discussing an item that only barely qualifies for this blog (it comes with a book… a tiny book of stickers.) Amazon is now listing for October release a Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy. It’s one of the …

Upcoming releases
The Return of What’s Necessary

Coming in April is a reissue of Only What’s Necessary, Chip Kidd’s second book on the art of Peanuts, reissued for the 75th anniversary of the strip. (My review of the original 2015 edition is here.) For those keeping track, this is the third cover for this book. Here are the …

Upcoming releases
Covers to coming things

It’s that time when all the computer systems update and suddenly we’re seeing covers t0o some of the books that are rolling down the road toward us. The big one in this batch is probably Snoopy: The Story of My Life, which is the Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago ghosting …